On Tue, Sep 02, 2008, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: Curses Problem in Detecting Backspace": > Not intending to start a flame war, but this is against the Debian > policy, which is also assumed by the "Linux Backspace/Delete > mini-HOWTO". It specifically says 'Terminals should have stty erase ^?'.
Do you have any idea why this bizarre (in a different mail I even went as far as calling it "stupid") policy was instituted? > to make backspace work in screen, but other than that, things generally > do not^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork well (sorry for the stupid joke, I just had to). Are Debian users now expected to use "^?" in their jokes as well? :-) -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Sep 2 2008, 2 Elul 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"A mathematician is a device for turning http://nadav.harel.org.il |coffee into theorems" -- P. Erdos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
